Performing Arts Grants Awarded 2004
The Foundation is pleased to announce that the following organizations received grants through the Performing Arts Program in 2004:
Strategic Initiatives (Year 1 of 3 years)
Red Sky Performance - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will take advantage of some extraordinary opportunities, by creating a tour manager position and promotional materials to support touring activities, in order to develop a solid touring infrastructure much earlier than would otherwise be possible.
Centre for Indigenous Theatre - $70,650 / 3 yrs
will raise the profile of the Centre nationally, expand enrolment in its full-time and summer training programs, and work toward a third summer program in Eastern Canada, by using alumni in recruitment, improving materials and their dissemination, and formalizing new strategic partnerships.
The Theatre Centre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will restructure and enhance an integral part of its development program by engaging an associate director to work with five emerging but already successful companies in residence at the Theatre Center as a unit.
Hannaford St. Silver Band - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create its first staff position for fundraising and development, adding professional skills in this area to allow the HSSB to diversify its revenue streams, to improve its database and information systems, and to expand a consistent effort in marketing and audience development.
Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival - $99,000 / 3 yrs
will create a dedicated marketing and development position to enable the company to implement a more cohesive and consistent strategy to attract financial support, and maintain the Festival's profile throughout the year.
Art of Time - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will hire its first part-time general manager, to establish a solid foundation of administration, accounting, and project management. It will alsoinvest in a marketing and sales strategy that will help the company build on its achievements to date, and identify new audiences and revenue opportunities.
Cahoots Theatre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will access specialist support in marketing, website development, and graphic design; hire a part-time Communications Coordinator on a contract basis; and upgrade its technical capabilities, in order to improve communications during its 20th anniversary season.
Ballet Creole - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create a part-time the administrative position dedicated to marketing, and promotion, to maximize earned revenues from their new facility, expanded programming, attendance at performances, enrolment in training programs, studio rentals, sales of CDs, and tour bookings.
Videocabaret - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create a new administrative position to build on great opportunities for its award-wining cycle of History Plays, such as adaptations to other media, creative collaborations such as Simon Fraser University's History Play Project, school audiences, and the educational uses of their website and archives.
Ensemble Noir - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create a general manager's position, to allow the company to develop a new business plan, devise and coordinate improved marketing and development strategies, and better coordinate Ensemble Noir events and concerts.
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People - $255,000 / 3 yrs
will undertake an extensive market analysis to address special challenges which face young audience companies, and integrate the activities of the drama program more completely into the theatre's operations, to realize its vision of the theatre as a child development centre.
Strategic Initiatives (Year 2 of 3 years)
School of Toronto Dance Theatre - $69,000 / 3 yrs
will expand the current repertory program for senior level students to include duets, trios, and small ensemble work, to broaden the performance experience for students and better prepare them for work as independent dance artists, or in small contemporary dance companies.
Dancemakers - $94,050 / 3 yrs
will establish a Center for Contemporary Creation in its new venue at the Distillery District, making the facility management position full-time, andfilling the position of rehearsal director and teaching assistant, to work with Artistic Director Serge Bennathan.
Overall Dance - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create Momentum Management, a shared management structure for four well-established independent dance artists (Kate Alton, Julia Sasso, Susanna Hood, and Eryn Dace Trudell) that will allow them to combine resources for marketing, administration, and development.
Roseneath Theatre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
In response to phenomenal growth in its artistic operations, will create an administrative position with particular focus on marketing and tour coordination.
Corpus Dance - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will take advantage of a major opportunity to expand its francophone markets, by hiring a bilingual marketing and sales agent to facilitate and coordinate this next step in the company's growth.
Nightwood Theatre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will take advantage of its upcoming 25th anniversary and new venue at the Distillery District to raise the company's profile and to diversify its financial base, by creating a staff position to bring dedicated focus to marketing and development.
Via Salzburg - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will solidify their rapid growth and success by developing a professional administrative infrastructure, and securing complementary specialist skills in marketing and sponsorship.
Native Earth - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will continue its process of regeneration and bolster its administrative structure by expanding to full-time a staff position dedicated to marketing, fundraising, and outreach programs.
Fujiwara Dance - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create a position of Dance Animateur, in partnership with DUO, to promote dance in the community and to organize public awareness and audience development activities around specific performances of a range of companies.
Crow's Theatre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will build on its preliminary work and experience in touring, to promote their work abroad, attend conferences, showcases and festivals, broker partnerships, and develop international touring expertise.
Storyteller's School - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will undertake a process of artistic renewal and reanimation, as it approaches its 25th anniversary, focusing on four specific initiatives designed to put a diverse range of creative artists once again at the centre of its programs.
Strategic Initiatives (Year 3 of 3 years)
Canadian Children's Dance Company - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will support its graduating dancers (age 19) through the transition to professional work, and enhance its programming for teen and adult audiences, by creating TILT sound+motion lab, a small, mobile, performance-based company of dancers up to 23 years of age.
Ballet Jorgen - $99,285 / 3 yrs
will create a new staff position to significantly improve its effectiveness in dance education, outreach, and audience development.
Soundstreams - $88,500 / 3 yrs
will create a new staff position to tackle significant communication challenges the company faces to build and sustain audiences, improve its communication vehicles, and strengthen its Board.
Theatre Passe Muraille - $150,000 / 3 yrs
will diversify its revenues, and provide an important service to the independent performing community, through the implementation of the Central Box Office Project.
Gargantua Theatre - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will create a new staff position to help the company promote and develop partnerships and opportunities for touring, expanding revenue sources, and film and/or television adaptations of existing works.
Nathaniel Dett Chorale - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will bring part-time administrative and artistic salaries to full time, in order to realize its five-year plan, with components for marketing, fundraising, educational outreach and touring.
Soulpepper Theatre - $352,500 / 3 yrs
will work with its new academic partner George Brown College, to develop The Soulpepper Academy conservatory program, and test its design and implementation with "mini-academies" in preparation for a full-scale launch in 2005.
Tarragon Theatre - $240,000 / 3 yrs
will strengthen the middle stages of its renowned play development process, through The WorkSpace, an intensive workshopping program for plays the theatre has decided are destined for production.
Volcano - $60,000 / 3 yrs
will secure a shared office and part-time administrative support, in order to build on the company's momentum and strengths, as it makes the transition from project to operating support from its government funders.
Internships
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People
Deann Degruijter, Artistic Direction - $25,000 12 mths
Blyth Festival
Gil Garratt, Artistic Direction - $19,240 9.5 mths
Toronto Consort
Alison Mock, Administration - $20,680 10 mths
Toronto Dance Theatre
Valerie Stevens, Production - $13,950 6.5 mths
Canadian Opera Company
Matthew Hemming, Production - $12,500 6 mths
Canadian Stage Company
Ashley Gibson, Production - $17,600 10 mths
Gallery Players
Allen McCreath, Administration - $25,000 12 mths
De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre
Michael Taylor, Production - $25,000 12 mths
Necessary Angel Theatre
Vanessa Cassels, Producing - $25,000 12 mths
Jumblies Theatre
Faye Dupras, Artistic Direction - $25,000 12 mths
Theatre Passe Muraille
Jennifer Filippelli, administration - $25,000 12 mths
Factory Theatre
Jennifer Capraru, artistic direction - $25,000 12 mths
Shaw Festival
Alexander Cann, musical direction - $18,400 9 mths
Canadian Opera Company
Matthew Hemming, props - $12,500 6 mths
Canadian Music Centre
Jennifer Cianca, administration - $16,700 8 mths
National Arts Centre
Martina Kuska, education and outreach - $25,000 12 mths
Red Barn Theatre
Stefan Lenzi, administration - $18,750 9 mths
Ottawa Children's Festival
Joe Mebrahtu, festival management - $25,000 12 mths
Opportunities for Senior Artists and Administrators 2004:
Continuum New Music
Jennifer Waring - $25,000
da da kamera
Sherrie Johnson - $25,000
Dancetheatre
David Earle - $12,700
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